Chapter 10

As it turned out, there wasn't much of anything to do with their belongings. They were going to camp out for the night, right where they'd landed. Can you imagine?

Draco grumbled as he and Pansy unpacked their sleeping bags along with the rest of the students. A campout. That had so not been what he'd signed up on this trip for.

No, one of those nagging little voices reminded him, you signed up because Ginny was coming.

That's right, he had. His eyes searched out the Gryffindor girl, who was setting up camp with that pathetic friend of hers, Longbottom. Eyes glittering in the firelight which McGonagall had just called up, he watched as she spread her bag out on the ground and crawled on top of it, her movements careful, graceful, mesmerizing.

Then she saw him watching, and met his gaze, her eyes curved upwards in a slight smile. And she winked.

Draco blanched. Turning away hastily, he felt his cheeks grow warm. Why had she done that? And that smile…it was almost…seductive.

He was definitely losing it.

Pansy claimed his attention then, and he set about his work again with a will.

"Damn it!" he cursed. "Should've brought along the stupid house-elves for work like this," he exclaimed angrily as he scraped the back of his hand on the edge of his largest trunk as he endeavored to wrestle a pillow out from beneath a whole stack of spell books.

McGonagall shot him a warning glance, but as soon as she had turned away again, Draco commenced cursing. And not just his trunk this time, but the whole bloody trip. He was so busy with that, he didn't even reply when Pansy muttered something or other about going to find a bathroom, except with a slight shake of his head. A bathroom. In the middle of nowhere. Good luck.

He was equally unobservant when a certain red-haired Gryffindor slipped up behind him.

"Naughty, naughty," Ginny told him, her voice low and soothing. "Didn't your father ever teach you not to use bad language in front of a lady?"

"Pansy is not a lady," he said practically, not even jumping at the sound of her voice. It did give him little chills all up and down his spine though.

"I meant me, you great idiot, and the rest of the girls here. McGonagall may be ignoring you, but we would allow appreciate it if you knocked it off." Was it just him, or had her voice lost a little of that silky smooth quality?

"Some of us are trying to get some sleep, you know," she added.

"Sleep?" Draco asked cooly, his eyes traveling up the length of her body and finally coming to rest on her face. He had his temper back now, along with his determination to win her. "Why don't you lay down beside me?" he began daringly, "there's plenty of room. And Pansy won't be back for a while. I saw her sneaking off with some Ravenclaw boy, even though she said she was going to the bathroom."

Ginny smiled, the shadows from the fire dancing across her face. "Come on, Draco. You and I both know that if I lay down on that blanket with you, neither of us would get much sleep."

Draco smirked. The youngest Weasley had guts. "Well, that was why I picked the farthest spot away from the fire you know."

Ginny didn't say anything, just grinned that mysterious, teasing grin again.

A few moments passed, while they stared at each other, both with a slightly stupid, come-and-get-me smile on their faces.

But it was no good. There were too many people around, and neither of them wanted to get caught together doing…things.

Not that Ginny would have gone that far, it was just a game, remember?

"Good night, Draco," she whispered softly in the darkness, stepping forward and planting a quick kiss on his cheek.

Draco didn't move, he could barely even breath. He wanted to grab her, pull her to him, and kiss her properly, but he just stood there, frozen.

Ginny seemed to sense his unease, and her smile widened as she walked away, back through the small cluster of trees she come out of and back around to her own campsite of the far side of the clearing.

Draco watched her go, his hand moving of it's own accord, reaching up to touch the spot she'd kissed him at.

He wasn't sure what had caused her sudden attitude change, but next time, he vowed, he was going to take advantage of it.

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Ginny lay down on her sleeping bag with a sigh. She'd done it. She'd actually stumped him. Even if she had had to kiss him to do it, it had been worth it.

And the kiss really wasn't so bad, she reminded herself with a sudden, brutal display of honesty. Not bad at all.

And the look on his face! He couldn't even move he was so stunned. She'd shown him! And the game wasn't even over yet.

Next move: make him jealous.

She was almost asleep when McGonagall's sharp voice brought her back awake.

It seemed as if the Transfiguration teacher, who had overlooked the sleeping arrangements in all the bustle of finding people's things and distributing them, then setting up camp, had finally realized her mistake.

"Everyone up, right now," she told them loudly. "Girls on this side, boys on the other. Now move it!"

Her face had the look of someone who couldn't believe she'd made such an obvious mistake and was determined to fix it.

Reminds me of Hermione, Ginny thought sleepily as she struggled to sit up.

All around her, the sound of groans could be heard as everyone did what the Professor ordered. Luckily, it was the boys that had to move from the side she was on. She got to stay put. But there was no way she'd be able to sleep with all the shuffling and complaints going on around her.

Everyone worked quickly though, and were soon settled again. Ginny lay back down, waiting for sleep to claim her again.

It took awhile. Partly because the girl who had moved next to her, a Ravenclaw, she thought, was snoring loudly, driving sleep away.

But it was mostly because she found herself thinking of Draco, and the look they had shared. When he'd looked at her, his gaze brilliant as a smoldering fire, she felt something, some kind of connection, forged between them.

It was a look of passion, of want, of desire. Ginny shivered, remembering. It was a look of need.

And she knew she had shown it just as much as he had. But- her part had simply been good acting, hadn't it?

Hadn't it?

A/N: So, am I leaving you hanging again? Don't worry, you'll only have to wait until tomorrow, lol. Thanks to my loyal reviewers, you don't know how much your comments and encouragements keep me going.

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Aidenfire: Ack, I know what you mean. But, well, it's a little too late to change it now. And besides, in a way, it kind of works. I'm trying to portray Ginny as very smart sometimes, being able to pick up on subtle clues. And now we have a reason for her to drive Draco insane!

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